GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2176, 4 September 1907, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. WELLINGTON, September 3. In accordance with a promise made recently to a deputation from Dunedin, the Minister for Justice brought before Cabinet the question of removing from police control homes licensed under the Infant Life Protestion Act. Cabinet has now decided that these homes shall be placed under control of the Education -Department. The object of the change is to make one authority responsible for the whole of the institutions of the kind. Legislation will ho introduced at an early date to give effect to the proposed change. AUCKLAND, September 3. The Auckland ladies’ representative hockey team leave for Gisborne and Napier by this afternoon’s boat .Following the team: i-.iis-.es E. Alison, M. Alison, M. Macindoe, E. Mainland, N. Dawson, IC. Wynyard, Dobbie, H. Bagley, C. Maris Clarke (captain), L. Goudie, B. Maris Clarke, Montgomery, Veynton and Graham. The Crown lands taken up in Auckland province last month totalled 43.218 acres. The number of selectors was 108, the average holding being 400 acres. The rainfall at Auckland in August was 6.44 inches, being 2.22 inches above the average of tho previous forty years. The only instance of a greater rainfall being, recorded for August was in 1870, when the extraordmary total of 10.66 inches was registered. , _ - The Coopers’, Carters’, Quarrymen, Brewers’ and Aerated Water and Follmongers’ Unions have passed resolutions condemning the Arbitration Amendment Bill.